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Essays and notes on identity, platform design, cloud systems, and agentic AI.
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2026
The Model Didn't Change. The Decision Did.
ai
Your LLM Judge Should Earn the First Call
aisecurity
Your Agent Control Plane Has a Coverage Problem
aisecurityidentityplatform-engineering
The Halt You Never Tested
aisecurityplatform-engineering
Your Judge Is Not an Independent Reviewer
ai
Verification Is a Budget, Not a Default
identitysecurity
Agent identity is the right primitive, but not the whole control plane
aiidentityplatform-engineering
Identity Is the Substrate the Governance Stack Is Missing
aiidentityplatform-engineering
Everyone Is Building Evaluators. Almost Nobody Is Building Decision Engines
aiplatform-engineering
Evaluations, Guardrails, and Governance Are Different Things
aisecurityplatform-engineering
AI Governance Needs an Interrogator Network, Not One More Judge
aiplatform-engineeringsecurity
The Missing Runtime Contract Between AI Evals and AI Governance
aiplatform-engineering
The Evaluation Stack Is Not the Governance Platform
aiplatform-engineering
Where AI Governance Debt Accumulates: The Agent Lifecycle
aiplatform-engineeringleadership
AI Output Validation Is the Risk Layer Every Enterprise Is Skipping
aileadershipplatform-engineering
From Guardrails to Operating Model: The Agent Control Plane
aiplatform-engineeringsecurity
Practicing What I Preach: What I Added (and Skipped) When Auditing My Own Blogging Agent
techaiagentic-ai
Dynamic Guardrails for Agentic AI: Why Static Rules Break Down When Agents Can Delegate
aisecurityplatform-engineering
The Silent Failure Mode in Multi-Pass LLM Pipelines: When Your Model Runs Out of Tokens and Says Nothing
aiplatform-engineering
Delegation Is the Real Identity Problem in Agentic AI
aiidentitysecurity
Building an Automated Model Evaluation Pipeline: What Worked, What Didn't
aicloudplatform-engineering
Evaluations: The control plane for AI governance
aileadershipplatform-engineering
I spent a Saturday debugging my AI blog agent and ended up rebuilding how it thinks
aiplatform-engineering
Agent Observability: The Missing Layer in Agentic AI Platforms
aiplatform-engineeringcloud
From Periodic Reviews to Continuous Governance
aileadershipplatform-engineering
The IETF is now working on agent authentication. Here is what that means.
aiidentitysecurityleadership
Weekend engineering: smarter AI pipeline alarms and upgrading to Claude Sonnet 4.6 with extended thinking
cloudaidevops
Governing Autonomous Agents Is a Platform Problem
aileadership
Operational Excellence: Ten Dives Into a Production Personal Site
clouddevopssecurity
Pen Testing My Own Infrastructure: What I Found When I Attacked My Own Stack
securitycloud
Agents Are Not Software
aileadership
Teaching the Blog Agent to See: Conceptual Diagrams and Visual Thinking
aicloud
The Conversation After: Agentic AI Needs a Platform Mindset
aileadership
Upgrading the Blog Agent: Sonnet 4.6, Web Search, and Bug Fixes
aicloud
A Sunday Well Spent: Auditing and Hardening My Personal Cloud Infrastructure
cloudsecuritydevops
I Built an AI Agent That Writes, Revises, and Publishes to My Blog
cloudaileadership
Migrating My Personal Site from Jekyll to Astro
clouddevops
Why Agentic AI Needs a Platform Mindset, Not Just Better Prompts
aicloudleadership
2025
2022
Earlier Writing (2017–2019)
Older notes from earlier chapters. Kept for archival purposes.
2017
Buying Bitcoin in Canada
blockchain
Coinbase Shutting Down Bitcoin Trading, is it even legal?
blockchain
Beyond Bitcoin: What is Ethereum?
blockchain
Understanding Blockchain
blockchain
Top 10 Cryptos
blockchain
But how can I get Bitcoins
blockchain
What is Bitcoin, and why should I care?
blockchain
What is Cloud?
cloud
Digital Signage Solution with Raspberry Pi
devops